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Our Favorite Murakami Shots from Our Archives

A retrospective that’s equal parts Louis Vuitton and large-scale installations.

Our Favorite Murakami Shots from Our Archives

If there’s one artist whose ties to the fashion world blur the boundaries of his actual practice, it’s Takashi Murakami. After all, it’s Murakami’s range of creations for Louis Vuitton that more or less defined the whole ‘It’ bag thing—his collaboration with the brand spanned over a decade (and now makes for an especially spectacular, kitschy-cool ’00s throwback). But even beyond the piles of cartoon-y, rainbow-hued monogram Speedys and box bags we’ve seen in our day are the incredible pieces of artwork by Murakami (as in art art) we’ve seen in our Coveteur’s homes, too (and that one time at Art Basel). We’ve come to think of it like our very own Where’s Waldo—only with an incredibly prolific Japanese artist known to some as the second coming of Warhol. Casual?

P.S.: Click through our gallery below to catch all of the stories behind these pieces. Happy scrolling!

 


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“Living in Tokyo, art is an important part of my life. Obviously I am inspired by Japanese pop artists like Murakami and Yayoi Kusama. Just after I had put down the deposit for my new apartment, I took my boyfriend to show him some Murakamis that I was thinking to buy. [I asked him whether I] should have the silver or the gold? I bought the gold, and he surprised me and bought me the silver because he said they should never be parted, like us. So there they sit, on my wall, together.”

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